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Andre
Vincent

ACTOR,
WRITER, COMEDIAN AND QUITE SURPRISINGLY ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE EDINBURGH
FRINGE FESTIVAL

Andre
Vincent was born May 1964 in Woolworth's Department Store Penge, and has not stopped
appearing in the most unusual of places since.

He
started his career as a professional show-off at an early age, becoming a star
struck stage brat, working when any theatre company needed a street urchin, a
herald or a small child to up-stage everyone. He then became a boy chorister,
to the delight of his family whose dream was for him to follow his grandma into
the world of opera and become a top class tenor.

Unfortunately
for his family he followed the career path of another relative, his great-grandfather,
who was an acrobat on the olde variety stage. So when young Andre stopped singing,
due to his voice breaking, he went back to the boards and spent most of his time
there arguing with theatre directors that Hamlet could indeed be fat. Disheartened
by this small-mindedness, he packed up his greasepaint and ran away to the circus.

After
a quick stint of training in Paris and with a backpack full of equipment, Andre
started travelling the world entertaining the masses at circus and theatre festivals
everywhere. With skills in abundance and his unique style of improvisation, he
has performed in strange places from a bullring in Columbia to a baseball stadium
in Nova Scotia to Vietnamese refugee camps in the South China Sea.

With
all this moving about, Andre had to think about where his career was going when
he found himself working at Disney World Florida at the end of ë88. Mask
work and regimented smiling were really not his forte. A friend tried to change
his sad demeanour by taking him to a comedy club in Orlando and three hours later
a new chapter opened in his life. He kept returning to the club, speaking to comics
and schmoozing the management, and within a few months he was on the road compering
at small stand-up clubs in the southern states of America.

His
apprenticeship in Georgia and Alabama was good enough in the eyes of his peers
to get gigs in other states of the U.S. and the pinnacle of this work was opening
for Bob Hope in Columbus, Ohio in 1992.

With
his head swelling and his tongue tripping one-liners, he returned home to conquer
the comedy circuit of the U.K., and in no time at all established himself as one
of the top stand-ups in the country today. His individual style has taken him
across the scope of the performance medium: a Saturday night show on Channel 4,
three sell-out runs at the Edinburgh festival, countless radio shows, presenter
of two award-nominated television programmes, a regular face on daytime panel
games and even an appearance as himself on the children's drama 'Byker Grove'.

Moments
treasured in André's career so far include:Playing himself
in 'Byker Grove'Singing 'Ooh Ah Just A Little Bit' on TV with Miss UKTeaching
Cliff Richard to unicyclePerforming at a Vietnamese refugee camp in the South
China Sea (booked by the Chinese Government)Opening for Bob Hope (Bing Crosby
spins in his grave even now...)